Forty Economics Books to Enjoy

Once in a while I revise my listing of forty economics books that ambitious students might want to pick from to enrich and extent their understanding of this great subject. One or two books have dropped out for my Autumn selection (rather like the changing CPI basket) and I don’t claim any special expertise, merely an attempt to gather together a decent cluster of really good and perceptive reads. No author appears more than once! Here it is and please feel free to challenge: If you would like the document in pdf format with external links to book reviews and videos - please click: RecommendedReadingforEconomics.pdf

Recommended Books

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang), ISBN: 1846143284
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Tim Harford) ISBN: 1408701529
An Optimist’s Tour of the Future (Mark Stevenson) ISBN: 1846683564
Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Shiller) ISBN: 978-0-691-14233-3
Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) ISBN: 978-0-393-06243-4
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Niall Ferguson) ISBN: 1846142733
Company of Strangers (Paul Seabright) ISBN: 978-0691146461
Crisis Economics (Nouriel Roubini) ISBN: 978-1-846-14287-1
Darwin Economy - Robert Frank ISBN: 0691153191
Development as Freedom: (Amartya Sen): ISBN: 0192893300
Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) ISBN: 0713999225
Economics of Enough: (Diane Coyle) ISBN: 0691145180
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar (Barry Eichengreen) ISBN: 9780199596713
Factory Girls (Leslie T Chang) ISBN: 978-0330447362
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy) ISBN: 1846143004
How the West was Lost (Dambisa Moyo) ISBN: 1846142350
How we Decide: (Johttp://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/chinas-factory-girls-and-what-they-tell-us-about-chinas-future/nah Lehrer) ISBN 978-0-618-62011-1
Keynes – the Return of the Master (Skidelsky) ISBN: 184614258X
Made in Britain (Evan Davis, BBC) ISBN: 1408703300
Master Switch – the rise and fall of information empires (Tim Wu) ISBN: 1848879849
Meltdown – the end of the age of greed, second edition (Paul Mason) ISBN: 1844676536
Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley) ISBN: 0140244042
Poor Economics (Esther Duflo and Banerjee) ISBN: 9781586487980 (FT Book of Year)
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter & Creative Destruction (TK McCraw) ISBN: 0674025237
Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream. (Francis Spufford) ISBN: 0571225233
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography ISBN: 1408703742
Super Co-operators, Supercooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour (Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield) ISBN: 9781847673367
The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics (Stephen Landsburg) ISBN: 143914821X
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis) ISBN: 1846142571
The Bottom Billion (Paul Collier) ISBN: 9780195374636
The Globalization Paradox Dani Rodrik ISBN: 0199603332
The Origin of Wealth (Eric Beinhocker) ISBN: 978-0712676618
The Price of Everything (Eduardo Porter): ISBN: 043401978X
The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature (Paul Collier) ISBN: 1846142237
Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) ISBN: 1846140552
Travels of a Tee Shirt in the global economy (Pietra Rivoli) ISBN: 0470287160
Triumph of the City (Edward Glaeser) ISBN: 0230709389
Upside of Irrationality (Dan Ariely) ISBN: 978-0-00-735476-4
Where Good Ideas Come From: Natural History of Innovation (Steven Johnson), ISBN: 184614051X
Worldly Philosophers (Robert Heilbroner) ISBN: 0140290060